[rollei_list] Re: Capa's Cameras
- From: Carlos Manuel Freaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 09:52:01 -0700 (PDT)
It seems you did not know your friend work very well Ed and it seems you did
not read his obituary published in the New York Times I quoted previously, he
was New York Times __camera editor__ from 1941 and wrote a column called
_Camera View_ until his retirement in 1970. This is some books Jacob Deschin
wrote about cameras and photography you can buy at Amazon right now:
http://www.alibris.com/search/books/author/Deschin,%20Jacob
or you can look for Jacob Deschin at Amazon.com
Carlos
--- El sáb 26-sep-09, aghalide@xxxxxxx <aghalide@xxxxxxx> escribió:
> De: aghalide@xxxxxxx <aghalide@xxxxxxx>
> Asunto: [rollei_list] Re: Capa's Cameras
> Para: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Fecha: sábado, 26 de septiembre de 2009, 1:27 pm
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> Jack Deschin was a friend of mine and I was his editor
> at Popular Photography Magazine in the 1970s. He was not a
> technical person and rarely wrote about cameras. Most of his
> work was reviews of photographic shows in the NY area. As
> far as Duncan is concerned, I personally, do not trust his
> technical evaluations.
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> Ed Meyers
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> Original message from Carlos Manuel Freaza
> <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: --------------
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> That story did not come from Duncan only, it's a well
> known and established fact in the photographic literature.
> It's true that some of the Life photographers accepted
> afterward that they were comparing new lenses with their old
> German lenses when they visited the Nippon Kogaku factory as
> I wrote yesterday, but the
> > surprise about the Nikkor lenses performance was real
> and authentic at the time. Jacob Deschin, a well known
> technical photographic issues and cameras descriptions and
> use books, certified the Nikon cameras and Nikkor lenses
> excellent quality in an article he wrote for the New York
> Times on December 10, 1950, "Japanese camera", I
> have already copied this article in part in a
> > previous post. You can read the Jacob Deschin obituary
> in the following New York Times 1983
> > article:
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> http://www.nytimes.com/1983/06/21/obituaries/jacob-deschin-camera-editor.html
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> > Carlos
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> > --- El sáb 26-sep-09, Marc James Small escribió:
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> > > De: Marc James Small
> > > Asunto: [rollei_list] Re: Capa's Cameras
> > > Para: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Fecha: sábado, 26 de septiembre de 2009, 11:09
> am
> > > At 07:18 AM 9/26/2009, Laurence Segil
> > > wrote:
> > > > Coming into this discussion quite late, but
> it seems
> > > to me a salient fact that in the afterward
> "Photo Data" to
> > > his book This is War David Douglas Duncan tells
> the story of
> > > his discovery of the quality of the early Nikkor
> lenses and
> > > his subsequent use of them on his Leica
> III. Had he a
> > > reason to fabricate such a story for his book?
> > >
> > > As already noted, yes. Duncan had committed
> himself
> > > early and hard to the Nikon-is-superior school
> and it would
> > > have required him to hope into his chariot and
> ride it
> > > frantically around the arena backwards to be able
> to retract
> > > his earlier stories. He had gone
> international on this
> > > in his initial fights with the Tokyo
> photo-editors in JUN
> > > 1950.
> > >
> > > Marc
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> > >
> > > msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
> > >
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